Hello all! haven't been here in a long while but my pretties have been doing very well!
Sadly, my Kaila broke a blood feather almost 2 days ago, I only noticed today when I picked up the feather I'd noticed at the bottom of the cage yesterday and saw that it's actually a blood feather and not half a tail feather like I'd assumed by it's length.
It's a big tail feather and there is dried blood on the broken part. I never realized since I saw no blood on her or in the cage yesterday. I'm assuming this happened during the little fright my babies had yesterday morning just before I left for school. When I saw it was a blood feather, I took her out, wrapped her in a towel (poor girl didn't like that, she's still very shy about being handled) and had my mother try to find to other part that should still be attached to her but she couldn't find it since it would be pretty small and buried in so many feathers. I worry that it could start bleeding again (it's a big feather too...) if I don't remove it considering how clumsy she can be but I don't like stressing her like that.
Not sure what I should do about this, I know I'd probably have more luck than my mom (who had no idea what she was looking for while I held Kaila in the towel) locating it but she's never handled birds and I worry she may not be gentle enough considering how skittish Kaila can be.
Any tips would be appreciated, thanks.
Sadly, my Kaila broke a blood feather almost 2 days ago, I only noticed today when I picked up the feather I'd noticed at the bottom of the cage yesterday and saw that it's actually a blood feather and not half a tail feather like I'd assumed by it's length.
It's a big tail feather and there is dried blood on the broken part. I never realized since I saw no blood on her or in the cage yesterday. I'm assuming this happened during the little fright my babies had yesterday morning just before I left for school. When I saw it was a blood feather, I took her out, wrapped her in a towel (poor girl didn't like that, she's still very shy about being handled) and had my mother try to find to other part that should still be attached to her but she couldn't find it since it would be pretty small and buried in so many feathers. I worry that it could start bleeding again (it's a big feather too...) if I don't remove it considering how clumsy she can be but I don't like stressing her like that.
Not sure what I should do about this, I know I'd probably have more luck than my mom (who had no idea what she was looking for while I held Kaila in the towel) locating it but she's never handled birds and I worry she may not be gentle enough considering how skittish Kaila can be.
Any tips would be appreciated, thanks.